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Reminiscent in theme and style to his Whitbread Award-winning?"Hopeful Monsters," Nicholas Mosley's?"The Hesperides Tree"?tells of a young man frustrated by the inability of his two chosen courses of study--biology and literature--to adequately define the world. Baffled by several life-shaping coincidences that seem to be part of life itself, he embarks on a physical and intellectual journey in search of a girl he fell in love with years earlier. This journey leads him to a deserted island off the coast of Ireland and, perhaps, to the mythical Garden of the Hesperides, home of the Tree of Life.
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An eighteen-year-old boy travels with his parents to the west coast of Ireland. There he becomes involved with a wildlife station where biologists are studying the causes of variations among species of birds. This research has centered on an island with ruins of cells where hermits in the Dark Ages had lived. The boy also falls in love with a young girl who, it seems, might be involved with gun-runners. Returning to an English university where he has intended to study Biology or Literature, he finds neither of these disciplines relevant. After a year he goes back on his own to Ireland to try to discover what, if anything, those old hermits had been looking for. Is it possible that human nature, like a species of bird, might evolve and change?
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“A beguiling work... A masterful author at the height of his powers.” – Independent on Sunday
“Mosley is an exhilaratingly affirmative writer.” – Scotland on Sunday
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“Mosley is an exhilaratingly affirmative writer.” – Scotland on Sunday
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- PublisherDalkey Archive Press
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 1564782670
- ISBN 13 9781564782670
- BindingPaperback
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- Number of pages320
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